Ever Green

Spruce up your home with a festive fir fragrance this Christmas.

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1 Mon Beau Sapin Candle, £60, Harrods 2 Editor's Pick: Deliciously Decorative Illume Very Merry Tree Candle, £32, Amara 3 Cypress Fir Christmas Candle, £24, Idyll Home 4 Frosted Spruce Gel Scented Candle, £20, John Lewis 5 Une Foret d'Or Scented Candle, £44.10, Escentual 6 Frosted Wreath Candle in a Glass, £17.99, Heyland & Whittle 7 Skog Mini Scented Candle, £18, Skandinavisk 8 Fir Tree Botanical Candle, £28, The White Company 9 Moonlit Fir Small Candle, £32, Diptyque

SPRING FINE ART & ANTIQUES AUCTION

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NIC FIDDIAN-GREEN, Gentle Horse in the Wind, a patinated limited edition bronze, £5,000 - £8,000

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GEOFFREY DASHWOOD, Barn owl, a contemporary limited edition bronze, £2,000 - £4,000

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Comfort & JOY

Discover the joy of being alone this Christmas with these quirky, fun and uplifting ideas. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Decorate extravagantly – the tree, lights, baubles, bunting, the works

Treat yourself to cashmere loungewear and stay in them all day

Alternatively dress up, it doesn’t matter you’ve got nowhere to go

Prepare a lavish breakfast, when do you normally have the time

Give yourself the gift of silence. Block out noises and distractions and do as you please

Buy yourself some presents. At least you’ll get what you want this year

Create a Christmas playlist, then sing and dance until you collapse from exhaustion

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Walk around the local neighbourhood and admire/ ridicule the Christmas lights

Plan an alternative Christmas lunch, canapés, Chinese food, the world’s your oyster

10 Experiment with flavoured gins, the perfect way to spend an afternoon

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Bake some festive goodies – mince pies, gingerbread, cookies – just don’t eat them all

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Have a film marathon. Christmas classics or comedies, you’ve got the remote

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Read A Christmas Carol and remember the true spirit of Christmas

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If it snows (I know… wishful thinking), build a snowman while singing songs from Frozen

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Sort through your wardrobe and fill a bag of clothes to donate to charity

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Then make a hit list of things you want to target in the postChristmas sales

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Wrap up warm and go for a bracing walk. You’ll feel invigorated

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Trawl through those untouched travel brochures and plan a postpandemic trip

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Call or email friends you’ve not seen recently and renew your friendships for 2021